Inside Soap UK 4 - 2018

“This is great for fans of the show!” This week’s big soap news is the return of an old face to Corrie – with Martin Platt set to head back to the cobbles in son David’s hour of need. As great as this is for long-term fans of the show – and for David, obviously – you do sometimes wonder how soap producers decide which characters to bring back and when. After all, David has got married, become a dad and been widowed in the past few years – but none of these major life events seemed big enough for Martin to get himself from Liverpool to Manchester to visit his boy. Well, it is a full 45-minute journey and could set him back as much as £5! I like…

“It’s an agonising wait as Cain and Moira face their own high noon” The pressure of life in the Dales prompts despondent Moira to make a drastic decision this week – as she announces that she’s leaving the village! However, she’s reckoned without her ex Cain – and when he discovers Moira’s plan, the prospect of losing both his little boy Isaac and the woman he can’t live without propels him into action. “Being apart from Moira is absolute torture for Cain,” sighs our Emmerdale sneak. “She’s been to hell and back in recent months, of course, but Cain has tried to be there for her every step of the way. Yet even in the face of his devotion, Moira insisted they’d never be together. “So in an attempt to…

How is Cain feeling about the Harriet situation while all this stuff with Moira is going on? He has huge pangs of guilt. He’s even told Harriet how guilty he is about things. He feels awful because she’d been saying to him for a while that he needed to get back with Moira – but he kept saying no. Did Cain really love Harriet? While he cares about her a lot, I don’t think the word love ever passed his lips with Harriet – though she might have said it to him. Cain felt that being with Harriet was the right thing to do, and he thought it would get him over Moira – but he kept getting dragged back into Moira’s life. Do you still think Cain and Moira…

“Toyah should worry about Peter’s reaction – he’s jealous as hell!” Carla lives up to her dramatic reputation this week – as she seduces Daniel just days after a shock collapse sees her rushed to hospital! Ailing from her kidney disease, Carla is forced to come clean to Aidan and Kate as a stint in hospital makes her face up to the life-threatening condition. But rather than spend her time worrying about the outcome of the donor tests her concerned family agree to undertake, she distracts herself by getting flirty with dishy Daniel… “This is typical Carla – she’s confronted with her own mortality, but still finds time to cause a scandal,” laughs our cobbles informant. “The Connors are desperate to help her, and both Aidan and Kate go to…

While outwardly Carla appears to be having fun, her future looks very grave indeed. The doctors tell her in no uncertain terms that she needs a kidney transplant – so with good mate Roy already ruled out as a potential match, it’s down to her siblings Aidan and Kate to save the day. And if neither of them are suitable, the race will be on to find another donor. Carla has never needed her family more – but will their efforts to help bear fruit, or will Carla’s saucy liaison with Daniel end up being her last hurrah?…

“There is no honour among thieves at this stage of the game” The heat is on for the perpetrators of Aidan’s heist this week, as the big man resorts to extreme measures to find out who has his stolen loot! With the dosh from their job still nowhere to be found, furious ringleader Aidan wants answers – and suspects that Mick knows more than he is letting on. Meanwhile, Phil is desperate to keep Ben’s attempted robbery of the swag a secret, and spies an opportunity to deflect suspicion on to Vincent. But who will Aidan decide is guilty of nicking his cash? “There is no honour among thieves – and at this stage of the game, it’s every man for himself,” insists our Walford insider. “The gang thought they’d…